BLUEPRINTS FOR PEACE
CRUCIAL CONFERENCE OPENS GERMANY MUST NEVER REARM (Rec. noon.) LONDON, Jan. 14. The deputies of the seven Foreign Ministers assembled at Lancaster House to-day to begin discussions on the peace treaties. Welcoming the deputies) Mr Ernest Bevin said that they must exercise patience and study and design to prevent Germany ever again threatening the peace of Europe. Everything must be done to prevent a resurgence of military power. That waswhy the Foreign Ministers had devised a plan for the deputies to hear every view on the subject. Turning to Austria, Mr Bevin said the Allies realised that one foundation of European peace was to get the Danu- • bian Basin working soundly, economically, 'and politically. He hoped'an Austrian treaty would be evolved befora the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, which would not handicap Austria economically in relation to the other Powers, and which would enable her to play her part as a meeting place of the East and the West. Mr Bevin hoped that the deputies would not devote too much" time to procedure, and said that the present stage was only the beginning and not the end. He added that perhaps the. peace treaties with the satellite countries could have been more quickly achieved if there had been greater preparation. ' They all agreed that preparatory work this time should be effective, and should produce a plan which . would ensure world peace for hundreds of years. DELIBERATIONS IN CAMERA. All deliberations of the deputies will be secret. A large body of police guarded Lancaster House.- The deputies met in a room overlooking Green Park, used by the Big Four deputies for talks on the five satellites’ peace treaties. A. spokesman said that the deputies decided to begin discussions on Germany to-morrow, and on Austria the following day. They elected Sir William Strang the chairman for this week. The chairmanship will thereafter rotate weekly in the. order of Russia,the United States, and France.
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Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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